The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-11-09

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Speculation Ciemency.
CHICAGO, Nov The last delegation to wait
IN the Gov ernor with petitions for clemency for
the condemned Anarchists left the city to-
night Captain Black asked if he had any
real hope that the Governor would interfere
with the sentence He replied that he was quite
sonfident that clemency would be extended to
schwab and Fielden, IL not the others. "Of
course" said he, ''there is no hope for Lingg.
He has signed his own doom"
I'm case of ar execution. will the men be at
tended by ministersT
Captain Black said: ''These men have relig-
ion of their own, and do not want any ministers
of the gospel They not religious in the
common sense of that term, but agnostics. not
atheists, remember"
Miss VanZandt had brief interview with
Spies through the netting of the lawyers cage.
Mrs. Schwab. Mrs. Fielden. Mrs. Engel and
Mrs. Fischer were in the visitors cage, and had
d brief conversation with their husbands. Mrs.
Fieiden had her children with her, and the meet
ing be tween Fieiden and his family was quite
affecting
In addition to the joint letter of Spies, Fieldsn
and Schwab deploring the loss of life at the
Haym arket, and disavowing the use of force,
the former employers OF Fieden have secured
confessing that he had been guilty OF
using extravagans and unjustifaole language,
which he now regrets. and saying that he re-
cauts and disavows all his loyalty to the doc
trine that the wrongs of any class of society
should be righted by violence. Judge Gary,
with States Attorney Grinnell and the iatter's
application their views in the case Lawyer
Foster acting for Schwab, has pursued very
similar course and has secured q recognition OF
whatever claims Schwab may have to a commu-
tation from Messrs Grinnell and Ineham. 1t
may be said with confidence that Judge Gary
and Mr. Grinnell will take steps in favor OF
-6arr saH
men.
A. S. Foster, who was associated with Cap
tain Black In the defense OF the Anarchists be-
fore Judge Gary, has been retained to bring the
case OF Fielden and Schwab be1re the Governor
Captain Black permitted to have few
minutes conversation with his clients this
morning but keeps his own counsel
The following signatures were to-day obtained
to the Letition for the Anarchists: For COM
mutation of the sentence of all OF the seven con
demned men-Thomas @. Windes, Judge w. K
McAllister. APPELLATE Court; for Spies, Schwab,
Fielden and Parsons. j. Healey, Clerk of the
Appellate Court for Spies, Schwab and Fielden
Potter Palmer. Fielden SPIES and Schwab
yigned petition this afternoon. IL was
drawn up by Mr.. Salfer and Captain Black, and
is in milder tone than any they have so far
sent in. They ask simply for justice and dis
card all the arguments that have accompanied
former pleas for the Governors interference.
Instead of the individual letter which 1t was
limited by members of the Amnesty Association
that Parsons. the Anarchist. would write deplor-
ing, like Spies, Schwab and Fielden. the loss of
Ire At the dayfnarkeE ana aDJuflUR Inc use OF
force. decidedly different Communication,
understood TO be Parsons's last plea, was issued
over his signature tonight. The document is
two columns in length, chiefly remarkable for
the absence of any reference, whatever, to the
massacre at the Havmarket TO the dynamite
ides. Parsons addresses the letter to locally
prominent Socialist, My Dear Friend, George
Schilling," and occupies himself exclusively with
a sketch of his own lfe particularly his actions
as leader of the newly liberated negroes during
reconstruction times in Texas. Schilling will
he Iafsa fnli tn ncfo NV
tomorrow, if the Governor will permit. Parsons
closes follows:
Thus, a very extensive region of country,
among cotton, corn and sugar plantations, became
somewhat famous champion of political liberty.
Beiov ed by the blacks hated end scorned by the
whites then believed that the colored people were
truly freenen and that they only needed to
assert it. But did not then understand or know
that economic dependence industrial servitude.
made political liberty impossible. did know,
did the blacks, that they had been merely emanci-
pated from chattel to servitude did not then
know that economic freedom must be- the basis for
political liberty and that the wage-labor system
And now, the Helots of old, the so-calied free
blacks. in with their white brethren, work
and die like beasts in the unceasing tread-uin of
wage slavery.
The main delegation which will intercede for
the lives OF the seven Anarchists left for Spring
field tonight at 1l:20 P. Some fifty and
women composed the party. An hour and a
half before train time the relatives of the
deInnsd men were in the depot, waiting for the
train 20 start President Oliver and other mem
bers of ths Amnesty Association
hand early, bringing with them small
trunk and several heavy velises over-laden
with the documents to be presented TO the Gov
The relatives of the condemned
men who accompanied the delegation were Mrs.
Spies. Miss Gretchen Spies, Ferdinand, Chris
and Henry Spies, Mrs. Schwab. Mrs Fischer
and Miss Marie Engel. The wife OF Eneel did
not 60, but was present to bid the
party fearful adieu. A great
crowd gathered at the depot, and
stared cur1ous!y at the friends of the Anarch-
lists, taking particular interest in the women.
the idlsrs shen Miss Nina Vanzandt and Mrs.
Parsons failed join the travellers.
The father of the proxy bride among
those who watched the departure of the train
Miss Eda Miller ''Lingg's GIRL" was present.
and at the last moment decided to to Spring
field. Mrs Cora L. v. Richmond, the clair
voyant, accompanied the delegation by special
invitation, and is expected to make an 'inspira-
tion appeal" to the Governor.
Arrested on Charge of Conspiracy.
CHICAGO Nov. 8.-Conspiracy is the charge
under which two men, said by the police to be
rabid Anarchists, were taken from the central
station this afternoon and locked up In the
Armory. The two men. with number of others
who are either under lock and key Or under the
stricrest surveillance, said by the police to
be implicated in plot the exact nature of
which the police not yet ready to divuge,
but which contemplated the use of force against
the execution OF the death sentence
the condemned Reds. Frederick Horst
was arrested, late on Saturday night,
by Detective Schuttler in the vicinity of ely
bourn avenue and Division street At the time